The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-24
A SNAKE IN HER BED.
Kate Hennessey's Brave Deed When
Her Feet Touched a Rather.

| From the san HdHciscO Cal
John HennesSey is the father of bloom
| ing daughter of Is, who resides with him on
the ranch, eleven miles south of Jackson,
Amador county. The old gentleman was
in town yesterday and wore a broad smile
on his face When the clerk at a down
town hotel, where he stopped, introduced
him to a reporter, remarking at the same
| time that he could probably give the scribe
| some news from his section, Mr.. HenneSsey
smiled more than ever
| "And that's just what ! can," said he.
"Sure and I've got the bravest girl that
there is just about. | have heard much of
| bold deeds but guess Kates is equal to
most any of them, for little girl, too.
Snakes bother us some in Amador. You
wouldn't think that "a mining country like
that would be troubled with them much,
but it is, in places, and in my vicinity more
than ever this year There are some rat
tiers there, as well as a variety of others
that are not poisonous At work on my
ranch last week | ran across two rattle
snakes and killed them
at was close TO my cabin, and told Kate
about it, and told her to keep an eye out for
them, for they were vicious fellows, what |
had seen, anxious to bite, of good size, and
very ugly every way.
81 am a widower, and have only one
other child, boy years old. Monday |
drove over to jackson, cautioning Kate to
keep a good lookout that everything was
straight
when ] was gone, as the day grew
warm, Kate spread a coverlet down on the
floor inside the door for the baby to play
on, and at length little Fred wandered out
into the garden to play and was about con-
siderable with her on the outside.
81 was delayed in getting my horses shod
in Jackson that night for some heavy haul
ing was going to do, and had to stay all
night.
Kate waited a good while with supper
on the table for me, but finally gave it up
and concluded to go to bed She had mean
while, some time before, taken the coverlet
from the floor and placed it on the foot of
the bed and tucked Freddy away. So she
went to bed
"Well, it must have been two hours after,
so she tells me, when she was awakened by
a whirring sort of noise, as of big grass
hopper 1t sounded down at the foot of the
bed, and Kate began TO kick around vigor-
ously to roust the grasshopper, or whatever
1t was, off
''Blest if her foot didn't collide with a
snake and a rattlesnake at that! She recol-
lected what / had said, and knew what it
was instantly. In a second sine had leaped
out of bed, and pulled the boy with her
Fred was bowling some considerably by this
time, and l Judge Kate was pretty well
scared herself But she struck light.
and then, reaching for the tongs, she
went prospecting for that snake and got
him.
well, she just roasted him in the fire
place till he was done brown and dead A
ripper, l should say! He was 2 feet long
and about as thick as a blacksnake whip.
You see, he had got into the folds of the
coverlet during the day and been fiirted up
on the bed with it. Slightly disturbed, sup
pose, by one of the children, he had ut
tered his war cry and my daughter heard
him.
But gracious me, don't know how one
or the other of them escaped being bitten.
Yes, Kate kept the roasted RATHER for me
to see, Wasn't that plucky deed, now"